Alessandro Giannone

Daily @MamboIO. Assisting @CocoaBlogging. Sold SambaStream to @Alfresco.

[Alessandro Giannone @AleGiannone]

@itsalexvacca Ads

[Alessandro Giannone @AleGiannone]

It always feels impossible, until it's done.

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@PierreDeWulf Looks amazing! Do it! :-)

[Alessandro Giannone @AleGiannone]

R.I.P. Java Applet API (1995–2017). I will always remember you as my first bit of Java code.
https://t.co/Omq6q2mQSl

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Thinking of this exchange today

[Alessandro Giannone @AleGiannone]

I discovered that adding:

And as Confucio says, do not fuck this up.

to the end of every prompt, makes the quality of the response 3x better

[Alessandro Giannone @AleGiannone]

@VicVijayakumar An endpoint can't even take a lunch break these days

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Every morning when I wake up I do:
git reset --hard

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@Matt_Pinner I got 16 so far

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@PierreDeWulf Energy of ignorance

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@HarryStebbings Absolute nonsense

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This is absolute nonsense. Only companies that are destined to fail would take on this kind of stupid endeavour.

Companies that succeed are focused on delivering value. Building their own accounting software, ERP, CRM, etc just detracts sources from creating real value for their customers.

People think building software is just vibe coding for a few minutes but there is a reason there are entire companies dedicated to building just one type of software. It's because it's much harder than it looks on the surface.

Of course, naive people exist. I'm sure some companies will try this approach. I'm also sure a lot of them will abandon their projects and go back to SaaS :-)

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS:

"  In a year or two; you'll get to a place where a lot of the current organizational tools that companies are using, you could build your own version.

It would make so much more sense to you as a buyer. The code will be yours, the data will be us. You'll be able to adapt it, to your needs.

There's no one size fits all. There's no like feature bloat."

Do you think vibe coding will kill a lot of the SaaS market in this way @dharmesh @nicolasosharp @zackkanter @carlrivera?

[Alessandro Giannone @AleGiannone]

Friday releases be like...
https://t.co/qfcxzQiYz4

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@theandreboso Everyone in Italy needs 3 children, 1 notaio, 1 commercialista and 1 avvocato

[Alessandro Giannone @AleGiannone]

The irony is that they still require you to print forms! Super eco 😂

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Today I had to go the Netherlands Embassy to renew my passport and had to print a form

I was wondering why my new Brother printer kept printing everything double sided?

So I tried to disable it in the printer's own display menu where it's hidden 6 levels deep:

> Settings -> All Settings -> Printer -> 2-sided -> 2-sided Print -> Off

But it still printed everything double-sided, then I Googled and discovered it's a forced default by the European Union, of course for 🍃 Eco reasons:

"To comply with EU ecolabel, the default setting is expected to be duplex (double-sided) in new printers sold in the EU since 2022”

I then discovered it's defaulted at both levels, AGAIN in the printer's drivers too, where you have to disable double-sided too on MacOS, again hidden 6 levels deep:

> System Settings -> Printers & Scanners -> Brother -> Options & Supplies -> Driver -> Disable duplex

Realistically few people will go 2 menus 6 levels deep to disable this and are just stuck with printers that print double-sided in the European Union

This is another example of their famous "nudging", they don't make it impossible to print like a normal printer, they just make it highly annoying and difficult for most people to change the defaults

Thank you @vonderleyen, very cool!

[Alessandro Giannone @AleGiannone]

@unclebobmartin Hold on, you did a full rewrite?
The sequence of words that makes good software engineers shudder.

[Alessandro Giannone @AleGiannone]

Don't worry, apparently we're only minutes away from AGI

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I hate ChatGPT 5, it's so bad, it's so lazy and it won't let me switch back to 4o cause I'm on Plus, this might really make me switch to Anthropic's app now, I'm actually annoyed by how bad it is, it's making my productivity go 10x lower cause nothing it says works

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@NoRiskNoParty What app are those screenshots from?

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After MCP, the new LLM revolution is TOON. So many useful contributions to software engineering, it's hard to keep track.